<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vlucas</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vlucas</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:14:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vlucas" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Definitions vary for sure. I just mentioned them because they did well at the box office, which is what will keep "cinema" alive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834885</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Even cinema is dying and nobody seems to care that much.<p>Cinema is dying from mostly self-inflicted wounds though. They keep making movies (or <i>re-making movies</i>) with bad writing, bad stories, and unrealistic character development arcs that not many people want to watch.<p>Good movies have been rewarded in theatres. Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession, Project Hail Mary, etc. all had great box office sales when other movies around them flopped.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:51:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832762</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Workers Cache"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huge props to just sticking with the HTTP spec on this one with `Cache-Control` headers with `stale-while-revalidate` support. It's amazing how many other providers mess that up.<p>On top of that the cache tags are a slick way to do invalidation. This looks like a great product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804957</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Never Give Them Your Face"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just say "no, I am opting out" and that's the end of it. They literally don't care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:21:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632281</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Never Give Them Your Face"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have <i>photos</i>, but not a voluntary full face scan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:19:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632265</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Never Give Them Your Face"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The phrase "people will not just [...]" comes to mind here.<p>The amount of people that let the TSA take a scan of their face when going through airport security - even when the signage clearly says you can opt out - proves that this effort, while noble, will fail.<p>I (and the family members I am with) always opt-out, but every time I look around, I am the only one doing it. If I had to guess, I'd put a compliance figure somewhere around 98%+.<p>Here is a good article on it: <a href="https://medium.com/womenintechnology/you-can-and-should-opt-out-of-tsas-facial-recognition-47b22e8d9702" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/womenintechnology/you-can-and-should-opt-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631115</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Ferrari Luce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The dealer issues are true, but we have been very happy with our 2021 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy after owning it for 5+ years and 82k miles. Budget luxury with pretty good handling and performance. It's a great value package if you need a 3rd row vehicle (I have 4 kids).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:59:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281528</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sam didn't "win" the case in the sense that most people will think of when reading this headline.<p>In the 20th paragraph of the linked article, finally getting to the actual reason:<p>> On Monday, the jury took only two hours to reach its verdict. Musk’s complaint, the panel found, had indeed exceeded the statute of limitations<p>Musk is appealing. This fight is far from over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:05:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236037</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cursor did this IDE -> Agents transition very well.<p>Cursor still supports both the IDE and the Agents window, open at the same time, in the same project. I frequently use both and switch back and forth between them. They also link to each other from the top bar and right-click context menus so you can switch to one or the other seamlessly. Best of both worlds. Switch back to Cursor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224036</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Halt and Catch Fire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Speaking of this show... I can't find all seasons of this on DVD/Bluray anywhere.<p>Seasons 1 and 2 can be found if you have the money, but seasons 3 and 4 are nowhere to be found.<p>I loved this show and would like to own physical copies of it, but they just don't seem to exist anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186918</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "/Dev/Notion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So is Notion Cloudflare now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:05:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124594</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Don't Even Know What to Build Anymore]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/i-dont-even-know-what-to-build-anymore/">https://vancelucas.com/blog/i-dont-even-know-what-to-build-anymore/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124573">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124573</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://vancelucas.com/blog/i-dont-even-know-what-to-build-anymore/</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Educated guess on why this is happening:<p>All the people who get free water cups, then fill them with soda. Happens increasingly often now.<p>We are moving towards a low-trust society faster each day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:22:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015739</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Portless is a great tool for this! I use it for all my apps now. Zero config + built in HTTPS locally.<p><a href="https://portless.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://portless.sh/</a><p>Example from the website:<p>- "dev": "next dev"                  # http://localhost:3000<p>+ "dev": "portless myapp next dev"   # <a href="https://myapp.localhost" rel="nofollow">https://myapp.localhost</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:08:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975002</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "I still prefer MCP over skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed on the MCP sentiment, and particularly remote MCPs. They keep themselves up to date with predefined tools, schemas, descriptions of how to use them, etc. where skills tend to be a mess over time, as described in the article.<p>Plug: If you want to try chatting with your financial data via an MCP, give FINTECH_MCP a try: <a href="https://www.fintechmcp.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.fintechmcp.app</a> - it's got a preview mode too so you can see how it works without linking any real data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:23:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733257</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently noticed an uptick in cold emails and spam after publishing my new website. After a few weeks, I asked Claude/Cursor to obfuscate the email for spam protection in the mailto: link, and thy both used JavaScript with data attributes.<p>Something like:<p>```
<a
      href="#"
      class="js-mailto ${className}"
      data-email-user="${local}"
      data-email-host="${host}"
      data-email-subject="${sub}"
    >
      ${children}
    </a>
```<p>And then some light vanilla JS to stitch it together. Works in the browser, and spam has dropped off a cliff since.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615765</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is actually how ancient civilizations safely stored the spent nuclear fuel from their nuclear reactors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:44:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351298</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I obviously meant traditional React components, not RSC. RSC can eliminate some client code, but they can be very awkward to use in practice, and lines between server and client get blurry really fast. The mental model is difficult for many to fully grok. I say this as someone who has lead engineering teams with folks of varying skill levels. RSCs are not worth the extra complexity and mental overhead they bring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:54:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154138</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The basic premise of Next is good, but it definitely has more overhead that in should, has odd "middleware", and is very hard to optimize. I view this mostly as a React problem though since any page requires full hydration and ships everything to the client. RSCs are... not my favorite for sure.<p>I too have been very frustrated by this, and I made an "Astro for dynamic sites" TypeScript framework called Hyperspan ( <a href="https://www.hyperspan.dev" rel="nofollow">https://www.hyperspan.dev</a> ) that aims to fill the gap in the JS ecosystem for a modern fully dynamic option that, similar to Astro, makes dynamic islands easy. I have enjoyed using it in all my own projects. Check it out if you want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:39:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145728</link><dc:creator>vlucas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlucas in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. Tax season for small businesses and New Year's resolutions for personal finances are the times I get the largest influx of new signups and subscriptions.</p>
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